Colombia athletics prize money
Colombia has taken $679,250 out of athletics, 41st of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Caterine Ibargüen is the biggest earner on $501,000, 73.8% of the national total.
All of it belongs to ten athletes by name. Colombia has never been paid a relay purse, a World Relays ladder place or a cross country team standing, which are the three things that pay a federation rather than a person.
Every Colombia athlete athletics has paid
10 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caterine Ibargüen | 49 | 37 | $501,000 |
| 2 | Flor Ruiz | 15 | - | $84,500 |
| 3 | Natalia Linares | 4 | - | $39,000 |
| 4 | Anthony Zambrano | 3 | 1 | $16,500 |
| 5 | Yosiris Urrutia | 5 | - | $16,000 |
| 6 | Jhon Murillo | 4 | - | $10,000 |
| 7 | Mauricio Ortega | 2 | - | $4,500 |
| 8 | Rafith Rodríguez | 2 | - | $4,500 |
| 9 | Ronal Longa | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 10 | Evelis Aguilar | 2 | - | $1,250 |
Career totals across all six competitions, not a single season. PAID is how many finishing places were paid for, which is a different count from wins: a second place in a Diamond League final and a world title are both one payment. Ten of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All ten of them
Caterine Ibargüen holds 73.8% of everything Colombia has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 91.9% of it between them, and $67,925 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Colombia
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 10 | 38 | $600,250 | - | $600,250 |
| World Championships | 2 | - | $29,000 | - | $29,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 1 | - | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 1 | - | $40,000 | - | $40,000 |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 10 | 38 | $679,250 | - | $679,250 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Colombia on $600,250, 88.4% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Colombia. Colombia has won nothing at the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column counts the people each competition paid, so it does not add up to 10: two athletes have been paid by more than one of the six, and are counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total. Flor Ruiz has been paid by three of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
Colombia against the rest
Where $679,250 puts Colombia
That is 0.5% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 41st out of 130. Colombia has Serbia above on $688,417 and Slovenia below on $637,125.
The biggest of the 130 is the United States on $29,436,125, which is 21.8% of everything the sport has paid to a country. The full money list ranks every one of them, and the six competitions behind these figures each have a section of their own.
Countries either side of Colombia
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- RUS
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Estonia
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Turkey
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Venezuela
- Panama
- Sri Lanka
- India
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Colombia won in athletics?
$679,250 across the six competitions this section holds: the Diamond League, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships. That is 41st of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.5% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Colombia athlete earns the most prize money?
Caterine Ibargüen, on $501,000 from 49 paid finishes and 37 wins. That is 73.8% of everything Colombia has won. Flor Ruiz is next on $84,500.
Does prize money won by Colombia go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to ten athletes by name. Colombia has never been paid a relay purse, a World Relays ladder place or a cross country team standing, which are the three things that pay a federation rather than a person.
How many athletes from Colombia have won athletics prize money?
10, sharing $679,250 between them, which is $67,925 each. Two of them have won a title, 38 in all. Two have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Colombia
Every figure on this page comes out of one of the six below, and each has its own section here, event by event and edition by edition, with the full ladder of what each finishing place was worth. The country money list puts Colombia against the other 129 the sport has paid.